Support .ssh/config

Hello,

As i suppose we use more Git for Windows or other tooling Ubuntu from the market, it could be cool to have a folder "ssh config" that will be automatically populated by the content of the file. Direct editing should be nice but later?

Also if I have a host named srv-ansible the URL like sftp://srv-ansible/ should go to the right server, with the good user name, using the good id file, like OpenSSH would do ;)

.ssh/config
Thank you for having taken the time to read.

Thanks for your suggestion.
We will see, if more people ask for this.

I will be good have something like this setup. As we also use git and like to use config file to manage host.

That would be very useful for me also. My openssh config file describe all the servers I need to access on a regular basic (including jumpbox), so it would be awesome if I didn't have to worry about keeping this information in sync with my WinSCP configuration when I need to fetch/upload a file on a machine.

How exactly do you imagine WinSCP should work with the OpenSSH config?

I think it would be helpful if it were supported as an import source in the "Import sites" dialog box. Of course not all OpenSSH options could be supported, but at least the HostName, Port and User settings could be processed and imported.

However this would still involve a syncing process so maybe it doesn't meet the other poster's needs. But it would be fine for me.

As above: How exactly do you imagine WinSCP should work with the OpenSSH config?

The config file is not a site manager (while some use like this). It's a pattern matching configuration file.

I think it would be fine to just ignore any sections that use wildcards. Or maybe options in wildcard sections could affect all imported hosts which match, and ignored otherwise.

OK, this request has been added to the tracker:
https://winscp.net/tracker/1896
You can vote for it there.

Thanks for the consideration!

Parsing of wildcards would be also helpful. For me it would be ideal if it would work like this:

• global configuration – location of ssh config file, ~/.ssh/config by default
  
• option to use it as defaults when some value is not explicitly configured in WinSCP
  
• matching of entered hostname to `config` entries, with wildcard support
  
• support for things that WinSCP can easily work with, i.e. HostName, Port, User, IdentityFile, ServerAliveInterval + ServerAliveCountMax, ProxyJump
  

@ppr: That's what I feared. In the end, people will ask for a full support :)

Well, who in their right mind configures a dozen of identical servers by hand when they can just write "web-worker-*" and then use just a hostname ;)

But what I wrote is more like a layer of defaults, while the OP wanted to treat .ssh/config as a source of easily accessible configurations, more like current import functionality.

Would be great to have ssh config file support.

I think that importing the ssh config file would be a very fundamental and important feature for any serious user, developers, and testers.

This comment is very good, but I don't know about the "wildcard" part. I would simply want to see an entry for each server that is in my ssh config file. I would not want to be be able to edit my ssh config from the WinSCP application to avoid unanticipated corruption.

ppr wrote:

Parsing of wildcards would be also helpful. For me it would be ideal if it would work like this:

• global configuration - location of ssh config file, ~/.ssh/config by default
  
• option to use it as defaults when some value is not explicitly configured in WinSCP
  
• matching of entered hostname to `config` entries, with wildcard support
  
• support for things that WinSCP can easily work with, i.e. HostName, Port, User, IdentityFile, ServerAliveInterval+ServerAliveCountMax, ProxyJump
  

I have the login information and key location for each of my servers in my ssh config, and convenient names set up for each. So, I pretty much live by this file, because it's a standard way to specify SSH connections.

Under the menu Remote I would want to see a list of connections that are imported from ~/.ssh/config (or the path specified by a system variable?).

Caveat: I just downloaded WinSCP and I don't think I've used it in the past. So, I may be off on where the menu belongs. I was surprised when this feature didn't exist and I came here to see what people have been saying. I've used FileZilla in the past, but I'm giving WinSCP a shot for various reasons. Thanks!

EDIT: It seems to have been implemented, although I didn't find documentation by searching and I can't find a way to import this file in the menus.

@gleynes: The OpenSSH import is implemented in upcoming WinSCP 6.0. I'm sending you an email with a development version of WinSCP to the address you have used to register on this forum.

@martin: Is it possible to download this version yet? I'd like to try this as well.

@manivela: I'm sending you an email with a development version of WinSCP to the address you have used to register on this forum.